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Reading Comprehension Questions: Serving Time in Virginia

1) What experiences did John Smith write about? How much veracity is there to what he recorded about his

experiences? 2) Who was Sir Edwin Sandys, and how did his policies and reforms impact the colony? 3) Why was labor critical to the boom economy, and in what ways did planters acquire that labor? What kinds of

abuses did the labor system spawn?

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